Who's your favourite trombonist?

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I've got respect for people like Johnson and Brecker, but I really have to go back to the late twenties/early thirties trombonists to be dazzled off my bollocks.

My all-time favourite is Miff Mole. The rest of the players on his Molers and Red Nicholls sessions were OK, but as soon as Mole spurts off on a solo, I'm up out of my chair like a skewer's come up through the seat, dancing around the room. He plays that thing delicately as a runaway flute. I don't know if he ever played with Bix Beiderbecke - he certainly doesn't on my records - but he's Bix's trombonal equivalent, in my opinion, to use a crap word.

My second favourite would be Jimmy Harrison, contemporary with Mole but totally different. He roars and splatters off like a combined orgasm, haiku, and whiskey vom. He died young, in his pomp, choking on ice cream, poor sod.

Just after him I'd place J.C. Higginbottom. Equally splutterworthy, but more rhythmically controlled and tuneful.

I've also got a soft spot for the rarely lauded Claude Jones and Ed Cuffey, who played with the likes of Fletcher Henderson and McKinney's Cotton Pickers in the same era.

More recently I love those trombone solos on the old Specials records. Was that bloke in the hat the same bloke in the hat who now plays in the Jools Holland band?

― All Bunged Up. (Jake Proudlock), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.yeodoug.com/

MY MAN GOT SKILLZ (and he played the serpent in a concert I sang in).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred Wesley of James Brown's band was super funky.

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Don muthafuckin Drummond.
http://www.ritchie-hardin.com/reggae/images/drummond.jpg
(shout outs to Fred Wesley and Curtis Fuller)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure Rico Rodriguez did the trombone solos on the Specials records, and yeah he's great. Did A LOT of work in Jamaica during the 70s, you'll see his name crop up everywhere on reggae releases from that time. If you like that style you should definitely get this album:
http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drf600/f637/f63713ig9ta.jpg

and then this one if you want more:
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/image/skatalites.gif

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Myself.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Which reminds me of an old joke:

There is a frog driving east and a trombonist walking west. What can be surmised from this?
The frog's probably on its way to a gig.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Roswell Rudd (see, especially Archie Shepp's "Live in San Francisco.") Also, Lawernce Brown, Dickie Wells and Jimmy Knepper.

― Not That Chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Donn Adams from NRBQ's Whole Wheat Horns!

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

He was exceptionally sloppy, which is a plus. In high school band we called that "sludge."

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

fave trombonist is my ex-gf, who I can't even imagine playing it. She would look so goofy!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think everyone does. It's a pretty goofy instrument.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, I guess Drummond is one of the exceptions.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I should clarify that she played it for like 8 years in Jr and Sr High.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you wedded to that number?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Curtis Fowler rips that shit a new asshole. He makes that shit sound like an asshole literally being ripped apart. FO REAL THO.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

George Lewis and Paul Rutherford for me, for their flights of daring do. Fred Wesley for when I've got ants in my pants and I need to dance.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a local guy here named Steve Berry who is just wonderful; he always manages a brilliant solo or two, every time I've seen him play.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Who played trombone for the Crusaders?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre800/e803/e80376uf0fd.jpg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg100/g191/g19102w60jy.jpg

maybe not the most technically accomplished trombonist but what a composer! his pieces remind me of mingus' darker moments (pithecanthropus, tonight at noon) mixed with some monk and of course the early 60s "new thing" stuff, which was his element

― jksd, Friday, 20 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Moncur is great. I have his 3-CD Mosaic box, which includes a lot of the work he did with Jackie McLean.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 20 February 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who played trombone for the Crusaders? "

Wayne Henderson. It's interesting that NOBODY'S mentioning J.J. Johnson.

― Not That Chuck, Friday, 20 February 2004 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

phil ranelin, roswell rudd

― angel duster, Friday, 20 February 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

"Who played trombone for the Crusaders? " - Wayne Henderson.

I have no idea why, but Collectibles tacked one of his albums on the back of Sonny Sharrock's "Black Woman". It really makes no sense because Sharrocks is firey and freaky and Hendersons is polished and poppy. I'm glad it's at the end of the disk so i can just turn it off after Sharrock is done.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Did Paul Rutheford invent the glitch?

like gail brand too.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you wedded to that number?

Dan... I NEVER LEARNED TO READ! :(

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 20 February 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I second (or third) Roswell Rudd.

― hstencil, Friday, 20 February 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

my little brother Mike, awwwwww

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fred Wesley of James Brown's band was super funky.
He's still super funky. Check Wesley out on the Greyboy Allstars' first CD. It's boogaloo bliss.

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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